And so are another group of folks here today -- our extraordinary United States Marines.
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Initial reports are that 15 personnel were killed in the attack: 14 United States Marines and one interpreter.
In Fallujah, the assault was led by nine coalition battalions made up primarily of United States Marines and Army with six Iraqi battalions supporting them.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: I'm inclined to believe that we need to increase, in the permanent size, of both the United States Army and the United States Marines.
But this, indeed, I have now managed to put myself forward a little bit and I am looking right now at this totally destroyed and burned-out shell of an armored personnel carrier of the U.S. -- United States Marines.
Standing on the roof of Two World Financial Center, amid mounds of debris that still litter the streets and rooftops around the World Trade Center, New York police officers -- among them former Marines -- raised the flags of the United States, Marines, Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard.
The Center for Security Policy again thanks the men and women of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard, as well as the countless civilian workers in the defense, security and intelligence community, for devoting their lives to the defense of our great country.
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Last week, the two governments addressed a thorny issue of recent years with a plan for the United States to relocate about half of its 19, 000 Marines based on Okinawa to other places in the Pacific region.
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Nowadays when the United States passes on real-time intelligence on the mobsters, the Mexicans frequently marines, but sometimes even the federal police tend to nab their man.
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But, according to a U.S. official familiar with troop assignments, the most the United States could send to Afghanistan is two combat brigades by spring 2009, because the Army and Marines are stretched.
America's souring on peacekeeping happened overnight when American marines were killed during the ill-fated mission to Somalia in 1993: the United States does not accept, at least on its own behalf, that casualties are a peacekeeping hazard.
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